In our current issue, Chef George Weld gets real about drinking–first his shunning of booze, then his zealous embrace of the stuff and finally, a sabbatical.
It’s still freezing outside, but soon we’ll all shed our winter coats, head outside to catch those first, tepid springtime rays and…engage in a little symbolic cannibalism.
Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like today’s grand reopenings of the Red Hook Winery, Red Hook Lobster Pound and Fairway Market. Here’s what’s happening this week.
Four months after Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc in Red Hook, destroying businesses and homes with its surges, employees put the finishing touches on the gutted and entirely renovated Fairway Market, which opened last Friday.
At Pacific Standard, the 5-year-old craft beer and sports bar on the Boerum Hill side of lower Fourth Avenue, even drunken bets are on. Thanks to the official Wager Book, now in its third iteration, patrons in all states of soberness (or not) can record their bets for posterity.
Importers Jenny and Francois have invited 14 natural, organic and biodynamic winemakers from France, Italy, and Oregon to take part in their annual Natural Winemakers’ Week, which runs February 28th-March 6th.
Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like Back Forty’s Cassoulet Festival celebrating the famed wintry dish from the south of France (“pork and beans at its best”). Here’s what’s happening this week.
When you hit the Greenmarket this weekend, pick up some Farmer Ground Flour (sold at the Cayuga Pure Organics stands) and try this earthy, rustic pound cake from June Russell, farm inspection manager for the Greenmarkets. Made of cornmeal, buckwheat and wheat, it’s a cross between cake and cornbread and makes a wonderful winter treat.
After a cancer scare, Jackie Summers quit his job in publishing and devoted his time to making and bottling sorel liqueur, a pink-hued drink he’d grown up on in Brooklyn. Sorel, which takes its name from the sorrel plant, is made by generations of Caribbean immigrants like Jack’s grandparents. But until Jack began bottling the stuff, folks outside the West Indian community had little access to the drink.
On January 9th a fire ripped through Oslo Coffee Roaster’s Bedford Avenue location, destroying the space and the equipment. Now their friends at Blue Bottle Coffee are hosting a latte art throwdown to raise money for the folks at Oslo. Aw…it’s so sweet, right? One coffee roaster helping another.
It feels like we’ve been counting down the days to Good Spirits, our annual cocktail and food pairing extravaganza, FOREVER. But it’s finally almost here! Only six more days until we’ll be sipping cocktails that transport us to warm, sunny beaches and devouring pork belly sliders, Island Creek oysters and so much more.
The Forrest Gump cocktail from Nick and Toni’s Cafe features Brooklyn’s own Cacao Prieto Cacao Rum, which we wrote about in Edible Brooklyn. It goes down easy with some Valentine’s chocolate, just saying…
